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Thursday, Feb 2, 2017

The controversial Milo Yiannopoulos' speech at University of California, Berkeley met an early demise Wednesday as protesters grew violent — breaking fences and windows, setting off fireworks, and throwing smoke bombs — forcing police to issue an order to shelter in place and put all campus buildings on lockdown.
Invited by the Berkeley Republican Club, Yiannopoulos, a polarizing editor from Breitbart News who has been criticized as racist, misogynist and white supremacist, was expected to appear in the Pauley Ballroom of the MLK Student Union at 7 p.m.
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